Machine for dyeing textile fabrics.



No. 757,055. PATENTED APR. 12, 1904.

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MACHINE FOB. DYEING TEXTILE FABRICS. APPLIUATION FILED Nov. 12,Y 1903.

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MACHINE POR DYEING TEXTILE FABRICS.

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CHARLES LOXTON ROTHWVELL-JAOKSON AND EDWARD WILSON HUNT, OF

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MACHINE FOR DYEINGI TEXTILE FABRICS.

SPECFICA'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 757,055, dated April 12, 1904.

Application tiled November l2, 1903. Serial No. 180,957. (No model.) i

To all whom. it may concern.'

Be it known that we, CHARLES LOXTON ROTH- \vELL-JAoKsoN,ormerly styled CHARLES LOX- TON JACKSON, and EDWARD WILSON HUNT, of Vliarf Foundry, Bolton, in the county of Lancaster,En gland, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Machines for Dyeing Textile Fabrics, of which the following is a specification.

Our invention relates to improvements in machines for chemicking, scouring, bleaching, dyeing, mercerizing, washing, or similarly treating textile fabrics in the open state; and our object is to enable the goods to be saturated with the liquor more rapidly and more effectively than is possible with existing machines.

In carrying our improvements into elect we employ an open washing-machine in which are mounted a pair of driven batch-rollers and reversing-gear and an intermediate selfadjusting drum lying in constant contact with the cloth on both batch-rollers, and the cloth is wound ofi' one batch-roller and onto the l other and then the driving mechanism is reversed and the cloth is wound back again, as described in the specification to our previous patent, No. 666,056, dated January 15, 1901.

Our improvements consist in the combination, with the driven batch-rollers and the selfadjusting drum, of an arrangement of spurtpipes and presser or squeezing and spreading roller for distributing the liquor on the cloth as it passes over the self-adjusting drum on its Way from one batch-roller to the other.

In the accompanying' three sheets of drawings, Figure 1 is a sectional end elevation. Fig. 2 is a sectional side elevation, and Fig. 3 is a plan with some of the parts removed of our improved machine.

In the views, 1 denotes the washing-machine; 2 3, the batch -rollers; 4, the self-adjusting' drum, and 5 the pivoted arms, which carry the d rum. The cloth from one batchroller passes over Vthe drum 4 and is Wound -onto the other batch-roller, the cloth being in constant contact with both batch-rollers and the drum.v The batch-rollers 2 3 are driven by any suitable arrangement of gearing which may be reversed either automatically or by hand to Wind the cloth from one batch-roller to the other and back again as often as required.

In carrying our present improvements into effect We mount a roller 6 in sliding bearing- 55 blocks or cross-heads 7, fitted above the drum 4 in the slots of the pivoted arms 5. The cross-heads 7 carry two spurt-pipes 8, the oriiices of which are arranged to discharge liquid onto the cloth, preferably into the nip of 6o the roller 6 and drum 4. The spurt-pipes 8 are connected by a cross-pipe 9, Which is connected by a fiexible'tube 10 to a supply-pipe 11, which is connected to a circulating-pump 12, driven by aistrap (not shown) and a pair of fast and loose pulleys 13 or by other suitable driving-gear. The pump 12 is connected by pipes 14 to both the wells 15, containing the "chemic or other liquor with which the cloth is to be treated, so that when the `pump is in motion liquid drawn from either Well 15 is pumped through the pipes and discharged by 'the spurt-pipes 8 onto the cloth, into which it is squeezed by the roller 6, and the roller being carried by the pivoted arms 7 5 5, which carry the self-adjusting drum 4, is also self-adjusting with the drum. The spurtpipes 8 being arranged on either side of the roller 6 sprinkle the cloth very effectively and, combined With the squeezing action of the 8O roller, insure a very rapid and complete saturation of the cloth with the chemio, soun or other liquor With which it is being treated.

In addition to the chemie and souring or other wells 15 we make a connection to a 85 fresh-Water supply for the purpose of Washing the fabrics when required, and the Waste water is allowed to run Oif to a drain.

The circulating-pipes, in connection with the spurt-pipes and pump, are controlled by suitable taps or valves to enable the fabric to be treated with chemio, sour, or other liquor or Water, as required.

What we claim as our invention, and desire to secure by Letters Patent of the United The combination With the batch rollers, In Witness whereof We have hereunto set our I means for driving and reversing the same, the hands in presence of Witnesses. self-adjusting drum, the pivoted armsl sup- CHARLES. LOXTON ROTHWELL-JACKSON, porting the same, of lhe roller 6 and the spurt- (FORMERLY STYLED pipes 8 carried by the pivoted arms, a eireu- CHARLES LOXTON JACKSON.) lating-pu1np and suitable connecting-pipes, EDWARD WILSON HUNT. for supplying liquor to the spurt-pipes, sub- Witnesses: stantially as and for the purposes herein set Ha B. BARLOW,

forth. HERBERT RoWLAND ABBEY. 

